Extra, Extra

  • The Crown Prosectuion Service has been asked to bring charges of manslaughter against a Metropolitan Police commander and two firearms officers over the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes.

  • The £600k Saab Aero X was on its way to the British Motor Show in London yesterday when its battery packed up as it stopped for eco-friendly bioethanol fuel. Garage staff at Weston-super-Mare had to push it off the garage forecourt.

  • That Shakespeare folio we were talking about yesterday? Went for 2.8 million.

  • God help us – Jack Nicholson has been pole dancing in our city.

  • Our new favourite Flickr group: the East End Elvises.

Image courtesy of the fantastic New Piccadilly Cafe Tsingtao via the Londonist flickr group.